Research News

Tingjun Chen

| Duke Engineering

Tingjun Chen: Connecting Tomorrow’s Wireless World

New faculty member Tingjun Chen is developing technologies, designing algorithms and building systems that will enable next generation wireless networks
Chris Monroe

| Duke Engineering

Chris Monroe: Realizing Ion-Trap Quantum Computers to Solve Unsolvable Problems

An international leader in quantum computing, architect of the U.S. National Quantum Initiative, and member of the National Academy of Sciences, Chris Monroe will join longtime long-distance collaborators at Duke to build practical quantum computers for use in fields from finance to pharmaceuticals
Crystal Noel

| Duke Engineering

Crystal Noel: Hot on the Heels of a Long-Lasting Qubit

As the Duke Quantum Center comes online, Noel is already imagining what we need to build the next generation of quantum information systems
Schematics showing rows of yellow rectangles that create soundwaves depicted by lines to show how they flow and rotate

| Duke Engineering

Sound Waves Transport Droplets for Rewritable Lab-on-a-Chip Devices

Vibrating transducers create tunnels in a thin layer of oil to transport droplets across a chip without leaving a trace behind
Yiran Chen

| Duke Engineering

Duke Engineer Wins Prestigious IEEE Mid-Career Award

Electrical and computer engineering faculty member Yiran Chen is recognized for pioneering contributions to the field of cyber-physical systems
Computer graphics of red spirals of different shapes

| Duke Engineering

‘Vortex Microlaser’ Encodes Information in Twisting Beams of Light

Engineers develop first tunable, chip-based vortex microlaser and detector, providing a new route to increasing the bandwidth of fiber optic communications
Yiran Chen

| Duke Engineering

Yiran Chen Inducted into HPCA Hall of Fame

Chen Joins a Small, Prolific Group of Computing Experts
A cartoon graphic of the pieces of a new way to read fluorescent biomarkers

| Duke Engineering

Silver Nanocubes Make Point-of-Care Diagnostics Easier to Read

Researchers use plasmonics to enhance fluorescent markers in lab-on-a-chip diagnostic devices
A copper rectangle with slits cut in the shape of a smiley face (left) and a blue screen with red and yellow blobs showing up in the same pattern

| Duke Engineering

Inexpensively Locating Friendly (and Unfriendly) Radio Waves

Passive method for locating and characterizing radio waves could lead to cameras that can capture images using ambient radio waves
Natalia Litchinitser

| Duke Engineering

Litchinitser, Collaborators Win Aspen Institute Italia Award 2020

Duke professor of electrical and computer engineering Natalia Litchinitser belongs to a US-Italy team that has produced a “revolutionary” microlaser that twists light

Tingjun Chen

| Duke Engineering

Tingjun Chen: Connecting Tomorrow’s Wireless World

New faculty member Tingjun Chen is developing technologies, designing algorithms and building systems that will enable next generation wireless networks
Chris Monroe

| Duke Engineering

Chris Monroe: Realizing Ion-Trap Quantum Computers to Solve Unsolvable Problems

An international leader in quantum computing, architect of the U.S. National Quantum Initiative, and member of the National Academy of Sciences, Chris Monroe will join longtime long-distance collaborators at Duke to build practical quantum computers for use in fields from finance to pharmaceuticals
Crystal Noel

| Duke Engineering

Crystal Noel: Hot on the Heels of a Long-Lasting Qubit

As the Duke Quantum Center comes online, Noel is already imagining what we need to build the next generation of quantum information systems
Schematics showing rows of yellow rectangles that create soundwaves depicted by lines to show how they flow and rotate

| Duke Engineering

Sound Waves Transport Droplets for Rewritable Lab-on-a-Chip Devices

Vibrating transducers create tunnels in a thin layer of oil to transport droplets across a chip without leaving a trace behind
Yiran Chen

| Duke Engineering

Duke Engineer Wins Prestigious IEEE Mid-Career Award

Electrical and computer engineering faculty member Yiran Chen is recognized for pioneering contributions to the field of cyber-physical systems
Computer graphics of red spirals of different shapes

| Duke Engineering

‘Vortex Microlaser’ Encodes Information in Twisting Beams of Light

Engineers develop first tunable, chip-based vortex microlaser and detector, providing a new route to increasing the bandwidth of fiber optic communications
Yiran Chen

| Duke Engineering

Yiran Chen Inducted into HPCA Hall of Fame

Chen Joins a Small, Prolific Group of Computing Experts
A cartoon graphic of the pieces of a new way to read fluorescent biomarkers

| Duke Engineering

Silver Nanocubes Make Point-of-Care Diagnostics Easier to Read

Researchers use plasmonics to enhance fluorescent markers in lab-on-a-chip diagnostic devices
A copper rectangle with slits cut in the shape of a smiley face (left) and a blue screen with red and yellow blobs showing up in the same pattern

| Duke Engineering

Inexpensively Locating Friendly (and Unfriendly) Radio Waves

Passive method for locating and characterizing radio waves could lead to cameras that can capture images using ambient radio waves
Natalia Litchinitser

| Duke Engineering

Litchinitser, Collaborators Win Aspen Institute Italia Award 2020

Duke professor of electrical and computer engineering Natalia Litchinitser belongs to a US-Italy team that has produced a “revolutionary” microlaser that twists light